Word: retold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOVERNMENTS OF CENTRAL EUROPE - Malbone W. Graham - Holt ($5.00). The story of the downfall of Germany and Austria-Hungary and the rise of the Succession States is retold in cold words, but not without prejudice. As a survey of government in Central Europe and Germany, with valuable information on the new constitutions, it is an excellent summary. The close proximity of the book to the events which it describes necessarily precludes good scholarship...
...history of the 650 years of the Holy Name Society (TIME, Sept 22) was printed in 175 U. S. newspapers. It was retold in gorgeous pomp before 100,000 members assembled in Washington...
...story of this myth was retold last Sunday at Dr. William Guthrie's church, Manhattan, by a dramatic reading from the Gospel of Isis and Osiris. Said Rector Guthrie: "God wanted the Gospel of Jesus preached in Africa. The discovered 'Black Madonna' meant that He does not reject the negro race from His family and would be willing to have His Mother belong to that race. Here then is living contact to be made with the religious myths and dogmas of the Nile Valley in ancient days in the midst of a swarming Mahammadan and Christian city...
...last evening on the Bowling Green, Christopher Morley retold A Love Story...
Commissioner Hirshfield of New York City is not the only person who wants to purify the histories used in public schools. But whereas in his recent report (TIME, June 18) he recommended that American history be retold so as to preserve a prejudice against England, others over the country are urging an effort in the contrary direction. Between the two -what...